2 week review of EE 1.6gbs

[Bluenose_Dave]

Having been on the new 1.6gb/s service now for 2 weeks, and here are my views,

i have the EE new smart router plus and 3 extenders, first off i know the EE smart hub plus only has 1gb LAN ports, speeds have been ok and stable WIFI rangers from about 650-820  what is not bad, i m running with them hardwired with a lan to them, i know WiFi 6 max speeds are 1200 but rarely get them in the real world 

this package feels like it been rushed out, my reason for saying this are,  openreach engineers laptops have 1gb Ethernet ports so they are unable to check speeds from ONT or any other Speedtest at your home if you are on the 1.6gbs package

the EE router having only 1gb LAN, also it comes with a cat 5e cable, this cat of cable does up to 1gb, so if you are on 1.6gb/s you will need to get a new Ethernet lead to connected the smart hub plus to the ONT

all the WiFi features like work and game mode and WiFi controls dont work, it say page not found, i have heard that the WiFi enhanced feature has been turn off so the team can look at it and fix it as it affecting a lot of users and should be back after a month, i am unable to check speed via the router page this time it asking for me to make an EE account

speeds and connection has been stable and good, but i did have a lot of issues getting the service

i know of people who have bought a 3rd party router so they can get full access to the raw 1.6gbs speeds, and they are having no issues on speeds as router has 2.5gb LAN on them unlike the EE smart hub plus

i have bought a usbc to 2.5gb Ethernet adapter so i can test the raw speeds at the ONT, plus if openreach do need to test speeds at my home they will be able too

so in short i hope you can see why i think this package has been rushed out from the fact openreach dont have the kit to test speeds at the customer home, to all the issues with the new smart hub plus

[gmbuspunk]

@Bluenose_Dave ive got saturday in mind i dont know why im having my covid vax today so seems logical tommrow

[SJPetter]

I just had the covid vax - naturally 🙂 finally recovered from the thing..

[Bluenose_Dave]

Spooky I also had Covid jab today and my flu jab in the other arm

[SJPetter]

3 jabs was enough for me, only got for travelling to USA. had the virus 7 times as it is. This time was the worst!

[timprocter]

Had both mine yesterday, Freaky or what.😱

[gmbuspunk]

4:30 had myne an ex cheadle town player did it think my looks in

[cliffy37]

Should we not of had texts from Royal Mail by now if we were receiving tomorrow (Saturday)

[XRaySpeX]

I'm sure Royal Mail don't send out texts. If it were sent Tracked the sender should give you the Tracking No. which you may track on the Royal Mail site.

[Bluenose_Dave]

Going of past experience over the last week with routers being sent, you would expect the one saying about Royal Mail expecting the parcel

[gmbuspunk]

The only thing that dosent add up are these are bulk orders